Re: [PATCH 1/2] cpuset: fix a locking issue in cpuset_migrate_mm()

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Feb 27 2014 - 09:37:50 EST


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 06:19:03PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> I can trigger a lockdep warning:
>
> # mount -t cgroup -o cpuset xxx /cgroup
> # mkdir /cgroup/cpuset
> # mkdir /cgroup/tmp
> # echo 0 > /cgroup/tmp/cpuset.cpus
> # echo 0 > /cgroup/tmp/cpuset.mems
> # echo 1 > /cgroup/tmp/cpuset.memory_migrate
> # echo $$ > /cgroup/tmp/tasks
> # echo 1 > /cgruop/tmp/cpuset.mems
>
> ===============================
> [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
> 3.14.0-rc1-0.1-default+ #32 Not tainted
> -------------------------------
> include/linux/cgroup.h:682 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
> ...
> [<ffffffff81582174>] dump_stack+0x72/0x86
> [<ffffffff810b8f01>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x101/0x140
> [<ffffffff81105ba1>] cpuset_migrate_mm+0xb1/0xe0
> ...
>
> We used to hold cgroup_mutex when calling cpuset_migrate_mm(), but now
> we hold cpuset_mutex, which causes task_css() to complain.
>
> This is not a false-positive but a real issue.
>
> Holding cpuset_mutex won't prevent a task's cpuset from changing, and
> it won't prevent the original task->cgroup from destroying during this
> change.
>
> Fixes: 5d21cc2db040 (cpuset: replace cgroup_mutex locking with cpuset internal locking)
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.9+
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to cgroup/for-3.14-fixes.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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